INTRODUCTION Venture capital‚ a financial innovation of the twentieth century‚ is a long-term liquid investment‚ which can be in the form of equity‚ quasi-equity and sometimes debt in new and high-risk ventures. Venture capital became better known after the famous legend of Apple Computers‚ which started out in the US in 1977 with the capital firm‚ Arthur Rock & Co. Apple Computers then made it to the Fortune 500 and Arthur Rock & Co. attained height in Venture capital industry. However the success
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1. WHAT IS CAPITAL FORMATION? ITS ROLE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Capital formation is one of the major factors in economic development. It is the increase in the stock of both material and human capital by making available a part of society’s currently available resources. Capital formation results when some proportion of society’s present income is saved and invested in order to increase material as well as human capital. The meaning of capital formation is that socitey does not apply to the needs
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Capital Project “A capital expenditure is a commitment of resources that is expected to provide benefits during a reasonably long period‚ at least two or more years” (Cleverly & Cameron‚ 2007‚ p. 397). Sometimes it can be difficult to determine the difference between a capital expenditure and a routine expense. A capital expenditure improves the value of the asset‚ whereas a routine expense is used for maintenance of that asset. For example‚ installation of a new bathroom in a
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B&K Distributors ROI for a Web Based Customer Portal 10 January 2011 Anne Huang‚ Yu Lee Kim‚ Min Woo Lee‚ Chalida Nakornchai‚ Kana Osugi‚ Ryan Thompson Recommendation to Invest in the Web Portal We recommend investing in the Web-Based Customer Portal. The expected high financial rewards with net present value of $346K and 41% IRR within five years (see Exhibit 1) are the main motivators. Based on our market research‚ we believe the high revenue would come from an expanded customer
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CAPITAL BUDGETING PRINCIPLES Capital budgeting is the process of evaluating and implementing a firm’s investment opportunities‚ by virtue of properly identifying such investments that are likely to enhance a firm’s competitive advantage and increase shareholder wealth. A typical capital budgeting decision involves a large up-front investment followed by a series of smaller cash inflows. A typical capital budgeting process is focused around following basic principles: 1) Decisions are based on
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11 Allocation of Joint Costs and Accounting for By-Product/Scrap Objectives After completing this chapter‚ you should be able to answer the following questions: LO.1 LO.2 LO.3 LO.4 LO.5 How are the outputs of a joint process classified? What management decisions must be made before beginning a joint process? How is the joint cost of production allocated to joint products? How are by-product and scrap accounted for? How should not-for-profit organizations account for the cost of a joint activity?
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WHAT IS CAPITAL BUDGETING? 1. 2. Decision making process of selecting and evaluating longterm investments. Examples include the decision to replace equipment‚ to develop new product‚ or to build new shop at a new branch of operations. It is very crucial for companies to make the right decisions because these projects require a huge amount of cash outflow committed for many years. A right decision will increase the firm’s value as well as the shareholders’ wealth. A wrong decision will
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Quest- 1 What is Production Management and its objectives? Explain Scope and function of Production Management? Ans:- Production is basically defend as conversion of Inputs into output through transformation process . Input include 5m‚s i.e. man ‚ machinery ‚ money ‚ material methods &output is final goods. [pic] Examples:- Production Management It is process in which performance of management activities are done with regards to selecting designing operating
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Capital budgeting Capital budgeting describes the long-term longplanning for making and financing major long-term projects. long- CAPITAL BUDGETING 1. Identify potential investments. 2. Choose an investment. 3. Follow-up or “post audit.” Follow“post audit.” Net present value model Net present value model The net-present-value (NPV) method net-presentcomputes the present value of all expected future cash flows using a minimum desired rate of return. The minimum desired rate of
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This is an application of capital budgeting that integrates the projection of a basic cash flow and the computation and analysis of six capital budgeting tools. Your company is thinking about acquiring another corporation. You have two choices; the cost of each choice is $250‚000. You cannot spend more than that‚ so acquiring both corporations is not an option. The following are your critical data: a. Corporation A: 1) Revenues = 100K in year one‚ increasing by 10%
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